Retro: Tetris | Addictive Blocks

You know what? They are just blocks with colors in which you have to arrange to score the points - but when I was a kid, I spent hours per day attempting to score the highest possible points I could reach. They were beautiful and they could be one reason I enjoyed my kid's days besides Duck Hunt and Street Fighter.

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Creating A Global Phenomenon

In June 1984, Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris in his spare time while working for the Moscow Academy of Sciences. Born out of Pajitnov's love of puzzles and gaming, Tetris revolutionized puzzle games with distinctive “falling” pieces that players could arrange in real time along the bottom of the rectangular playing field, or “matrix,” in order to clear lines.

Four years later, video game designer and publisher Henk Rogers discovered Tetris at a Las Vegas trade show. Confident that Tetris was becoming a huge hit, Rogers flew to Moscow one year later to secure the handheld rights to Tetris and then negotiated an agreement with Nintendo to launch Tetris on the Game Boy. In 1989, the Game Boy was released with one packed in cartridge – Tetris. The Game Boy version of Tetris went on to break previous age and gender barriers and created a global phenomenon selling more than 35 million copies worldwide.

Source: tetris.com

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